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Mission Life in Cree-Ojibwe Country Memories of a Mother and Son
In May of 1868, Elizabeth Bingham Young and her new husband, Egerton Ryerson Young, began a long journey from Hamilton, Ontario, to the Methodist mission of Rossville. For the next eight years, Elizabeth supported her husband’s work at two mission houses, Norway House and then Berens River. Unprepared for the difficult conditions and the “eight months long” winter, and unimpressed with …
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- Jennifer S. H. Brown
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- 9781771990035.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 336 pages
Man Proposes, God Disposes Recollections of a French Pioneer
In 1910, young Pierre Maturié bid farewell to his comfortable bourgeois existence in rural France and travelled to northern Alberta in search of independence, adventure, and newfound prosperity. Some sixty years later, he wrote of the four years he spent in Canada before he returned to France in 1914 to fight in the First World War. Like that of so many youthful pioneers, his story is one of a…
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- 9781926836553.01
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- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
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- 272 pages
Leaving Iran Between Migration and Exile
In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on …
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- 9781771991377.01
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- 304 pages
Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site
Ecology & Wonder makes several remarkable claims: The greatest cultural achievement in the Western Canadian mountain region may be what has been preserved, not what has been developed. Protecting the spine of the Rocky Mountains will preserve crucial ecological functions. Because the process of ecosystem diminishment and species loss has been slowed, an ecological thermostat has been kept alive…
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- 9781897425572.01
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- 7.5 x 9.5, 378 pages
Drink in the Summer A Memoir of Croatia
Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the south where he could break free from the constraints of everyday life. Those two worlds—the north, marked by the haunting saga of family life, its history and…
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- 9781771993807.01
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- 5 x 8, 223 pages
Champagne and Meatballs Adventures of a Canadian Communist
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs — a memoir written not long be…
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- 9781926836089.01
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- 348 pages
Amma’s Daughters A Memoir
In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely …
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- 9781771991957.01
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- 6 x 9, 326 pages
C’est le temps d’en parler L'histoire de Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle
La biographie de Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle raconte la vie d’une jeune Canadienne d’humble origine qui tombe en amour avec le curé de son village, et qui en subit les terribles conséquences pour le reste de ses jours. L’histoire de cette femme s’étend sur plus d’un siècle (de 1858 à 1973), une période qui voit surgir plusieurs événements déterminants de l’histoire du Can…
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- 9781897425251.01
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- 241 pages
Amma’s Daughters A Memoir
In this re-memory based on the published and unpublished work of Amma and Surekha, Meenal Shrivastava, Surekha’s daughter, uncovers the history of the female foot soldiers of Gandhi’s national movement in the early twentieth century. As Meenal weaves these written accounts together with archival research and family history, she gives voice and honour to the hundreds of thousands of largely …
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- 6 x 9, 326 pages
Mountain Masculinity The Life and Writing of Nello “Tex” Vernon-Wood in …
In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing era, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the industrialized w…
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- 237 pages
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